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Monday, August 13, 2012

Mind Control Theories and Techniques used by Mass Media

Mass media is the most powerful tool used by the ruling class to
manipulate the masses. It shapes and molds opinions and attitudes and
defines what is normal and acceptable. This article looks at the
workings of mass media through the theories of its major thinkers, its
power structure and the techniques it uses, in order to understand its
true role in society.

Most of the articles on this site
discuss occult symbolism found in objects of popular culture. From these
articles arise many legitimate questions relating to the purpose of
those symbols and the motivations of those who place them there, but it
is impossible for me to provide satisfactory answers to these questions
without mentioning many other concepts and facts. I’ve therefore decided
to write this article to supply the theoretical and methodological
background of the analyzes presented on this site as well as introducing
the main scholars of the field of mass communications. Some people read
my articles and think I’m saying “Lady Gaga wants to control our
minds”. That is not the case. She is simply a small part of the huge
system that is the mass media.

Programming Through Mass Media

Mass media are media forms designed to reach the largest audience
possible. They include television, movies, radio, newspapers, magazines,
books, records, video games and the internet. Many studies have been
conducted in the past century to measure the effects of mass media on
the population in order to discover the best techniques to influence it.
From those studies emerged the science of Communications, which is used
in marketing, public relations and politics. Mass communication is a
necessary tool to insure the functionality of a large democracy; it is
also a necessary tool for a dictatorship. It all depends on its usage.
In the 1958 preface for A Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
paints a rather grim portrait of society. He believes it is controlled
by an “impersonal force”, a ruling elite, which manipulates the
population using various methods.

“Impersonal forces over which we have almost no
control seem to be pushing us all in the direction of the Brave New
Worldian nightmare; and this impersonal pushing is being consciously
accelerated by representatives of commercial and political organizations
who have developed a number of new techniques for manipulating, in the
interest of some minority, the thoughts and feelings of the masses.”
- Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World

His bleak outlook is not a simple hypothesis or a paranoid delusion.
It is a documented fact, present in the world’s most important studies
on mass media. Here are some of them:

Elite Thinkers

Walter Lippmann

Walter Lippmann, an American intellectual, writer and two-time
Pulitzer Prize winner brought forth one of the first works concerning
the usage of mass media in America. In Public Opinion (1922),
Lippmann compared the masses to a “great beast” and a “bewildered herd”
that needed to be guided by a governing class. He described the ruling
elite as “a specialized class whose interests reach beyond the locality.”
This class is composed of experts, specialists and bureaucrats.
According to Lippmann, the experts, who often are referred to as
“elites,” are to be a machinery of knowledge that circumvents the
primary defect of democracy, the impossible ideal of the “omnicompetent
citizen.” The trampling and roaring “bewildered herd” has its function:
to be “the interested spectators of action,” i.e. not participants. Participation is the duty of “the responsible man”, which is not the regular citizen.
Mass media and propaganda are therefore tools that must be used by
the elite to rule the public without physical coercion. One important
concept presented by Lippmann is the “manufacture of consent”, which is,
in short, the manipulation of public opinion to accept the elite’s
agenda. It is Lippmann’s opinion that the general public is not
qualified to reason and to decide on important issues. It is therefore
important for the elite to decide ”for its own good” and then sell those
decisions to the masses.

“That the manufacture of consent is
capable of great refinements no one, I think, denies. The process by
which public opinions arise is certainly no less intricate than it has
appeared in these pages, and the opportunities for manipulation open to
anyone who understands the process are plain enough. . . . as a result
of psychological research, coupled with the modern means of
communication, the practice of democracy has turned a corner. A
revolution is taking place, infinitely more significant than any
shifting of economic power. . . . Under the impact of propaganda, not
necessarily in the sinister meaning of the word alone, the old constants
of our thinking have become variables. It is no longer possible, for
example, to believe in the original dogma of democracy; that the
knowledge needed for the management of human affairs comes up
spontaneously from the human heart. Where we act on that theory we
expose ourselves to self-deception, and to forms of persuasion that we
cannot verify. It has been demonstrated that we cannot rely upon
intuition, conscience, or the accidents of casual opinion if we are to
deal with the world beyond our reach.”–Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion

It might be interesting to note that Lippmann is one of the founding
fathers of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), the most influential
foreign policy think tank in the world. This fact should give you a
small hint of the mind state of the elite concerning the usage of media.

“Political and economic power in the United States is
concentrated in the hands of a “ruling elite” that controls most of
U.S.-based multinational corporations, major communication media, the
most influential foundations, major private universities and most public
utilities. Founded in 1921, the Council of Foreign Relations is the key
link between the large corporations and the federal government. It has
been called a “school for statesmen” and “comes close to being an organ
of what C. Wright Mills has called the Power Elite – a group of men,
similar in interest and outlook shaping events from invulnerable
positions behind the scenes. The creation of the United Nations was a
Council project, as well as the International Monetary Fund and the
World Bank.”
- Steve Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States

Some current members of the CFR include David Rockefeller, Dick
Cheney, Barack Obama, Hilary Clinton, mega-church pastor Rick Warren and
the CEOs of major corporations such as CBS, Nike, Coca-Cola and Visa.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung is the founder of analytical psychology (also known an
Jungian psychology), which emphasizes understanding the psyche by
exploring dreams, art, mythology, religion, symbols and philosophy. The
Swiss therapist is at the origin of many psychological concepts used
today such as the Archetype, the Complex, the Persona, the
Introvert/Extrovert and Synchronicity. He was highly influenced by the
occult background of his family. Carl Gustav, his grandfather, was an
avid Freemason (he was Grand Master) and Jung himself discovered that
some of his ancestors were Rosicrucians. This might explain his great
interest in Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology and
symbolism. One of his most important (and misunderstood) concept was
the Collective Unconscious.

“My thesis, then, is as follows: In addition to our
immediate consciousness, which is of a thoroughly personal nature and
which we believe to be the only empirical psyche (even if we tack on the
personal unconscious as an appendix), there exists a second psychic
system of a collective, universal, and impersonal nature which is
identical in all individuals. This collective unconscious does not
develop individually but is inherited. It consists of pre-existent
forms, the archetypes, which can only become conscious secondarily and
which give definite form to certain psychic contents.”
- Carl Jung, The Concept of the Collective Unconscious

The collective unconscious transpires through the existence of
similar symbols and mythological figures in different civilizations. Archetypal symbols seem
to be embedded in our collective subconscious, and, when exposed to
them, we demonstrate natural attraction and fascination. Occult symbols
can therefore exert a great impact on people, even if many individuals
were never personally introduced to the symbol’s esoteric meaning. Mass
media thinkers, such as Edward D. Bernays, found in this concept a great
way to manipulate the public’s personal and collective unconscious.

Edward Bernays

Edward Bernays is considered to be the “father of public relations”
and used concepts discovered by his uncle Sigmund Freud to manipulate
the public using the subconscious. He shared Walter Lippmann’s view of
the general population by considering it irrational and subject to the
“herd instinct”. In his opinion, the masses need to be manipulated by an
invisible government to insure the survival of democracy.

“The conscious and intelligent manipulation of the
organized habits and opinions of the masses is an important element in
democratic society. Those who manipulate this unseen mechanism of
society constitute an invisible government which is the true ruling
power of our country.We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our
ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a
logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized.
Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are
to live together as a smoothly functioning society.

Our invisible governors are, in many cases, unaware of the identity of their fellow members in the inner cabinet.”
- Edward Bernays, Propaganda

Bernay’s trailblazing marketing campaigns profoundly changed the
functioning of American society. He basically created “consumerism” by
creating a culture wherein Americans bought for pleasure instead of
buying for survival. For this reason, he was considered by Life Magazine to be in the Top 100 most influential Americans of the 20th century.

Harold Lasswell

In 1939-1940, the University of Chicago was the host of a series of
secret seminars on communications. These think tanks were funded by the
Rockefeller foundation and involved the most prominent researchers in
the fields of communications and sociological studies. One of these
scholars was Harold Lasswell, a leading American political scientist and
communications theorist, specializing in the analysis of propaganda. He
was also of the opinion that a democracy, a government ruled by the
people, could not sustain itself without a specialized elite shaping and
molding public opinion through propaganda.
In his Encyclopaedia of the Social Sciences, Lasswell explained that when elites lack the requisite force to compel obedience, social managers must turn to “a whole new technique of control, largely through propaganda.” He added the conventional justification: we must recognize the “ignorance
and stupidity [of] … the masses and not succumb to democratic
dogmatisms about men being the best judges of their own interests.”
Lasswell extensively studied the field of content analysis in order
to understand the effectiveness of different types of propaganda. In
his essay Contents of Communication, Lasswell explained that,
in order to understand the meaning of a message (i.e. a movie, a speech,
a book, etc.), one should take into account the frequency with which
certain symbols appear in the message, the direction in which the
symbols try to persuade the audience’s opinion, and the intensity of the
symbols used.
Lasswell was famous for his media analysis model based on:

Who (says) What (to) Whom (in) What Channel (with) What Effect

By this model, Lasswell indicates that in order to properly analyze a media product, one must look at who produced the product (the people who ordered its creation), who was it aimed at (the target audience) and what were the desired effects of this product (to inform, to convince, to sell, etc.) on the audience.
Using a Rihanna video as an example, the analysis would be as
follows: WHO PRODUCED: Vivendi Universal; WHAT: pop artist Rihanna; TO
WHOM: consumers between the ages of 9 and 25; WHAT CHANNEL: music video;
and WHAT EFFECT: selling the artist, her song, her image and her
message.
The analyzes of videos and movies on The Vigilant Citizen
place a great importance on the “who is behind” the messages
communicated to the public. The term “Illuminati” is often used to
describe this small elite group covertly ruling the masses. Although the
term sounds quite caricatured and conspiratorial, it aptly describes
the elite’s affinities with secret societies and occult knowledge.
However, I personally detest using the term “conspiracy theory” to
describe what is happening in the mass media. If all the facts
concerning the elitist nature of the industry are readily available to
the public, can it still be considered a “conspiracy theory”?
There used to be a variety of viewpoints, ideas and opinions in
popular culture. The consolidation of media corporations has, however,
produced a standardization of the cultural industry. Ever wondered why
all recent music sounds the same and all recent movies look the same?
The following is part of the answer:

Media Ownership

As depicted in the graph above, the number of corporations owning the
majority of U.S. media outlets went from 50 to 5 in less than 20 years.
Here are the top corporations evolving around the world and the assets
they own.

“A list of the properties controlled by AOL Time
Warner takes ten typed pages listing 292 separate companies and
subsidiaries. Of these, twenty-two are joint ventures with other major
corporations involved in varying degrees with media operations. These
partners include 3Com, eBay, Hewlett-Packard, Citigroup, Ticketmaster,
American Express, Homestore, Sony, Viva, Bertelsmann, Polygram, and
Amazon.com. Some of the more familiar fully owned properties of Time
Warner include Book-of-the-Month Club; Little, Brown publishers; HBO,
with its seven channels; CNN; seven specialized and foreign-language
channels; Road Runner; Warner Brothers Studios; Weight Watchers; Popular
Science; and fifty-two different record labels.”- Ben Bagdikan, The New Media Monopoly

“Disney ownership of a hockey team called The Mighty
Ducks of Anaheim does not begin to describe the vastness of the kingdom.
Hollywood is still its symbolic heart, with eight movie production
studios and distributors: Walt Disney Pictures, Touchstone Pictures,
Miramax, Buena Vista Home Video, Buena Vista Home Entertainment, Buena
Vista International, Hollywood Pictures, and Caravan Pictures.The Walt Disney Company controls eight book house imprints under
Walt Disney Company Book Publishing and ABC Publishing Group; seventeen
magazines; the ABC Television Network, with ten owned and operated
stations of its own including in the five top markets; thirty radio
stations, including all the major markets; eleven cable channels,
including Disney, ESPN (jointly), A&E, and the History Channel;
thirteen international broadcast channels stretching from Australia to
Brazil; seven production and sports units around the world; and
seventeen Internet sites, including the ABC group, ESPN.sportszone,
NFL.com, NBAZ.com, and NASCAR.com. Its five music groups include the
Buena Vista, Lyric Street, and Walt Disney labels, and live theater
productions growing out of the movies The Lion King, Beauty and the
Beast, and King David.”
- Ibid

15% of US Music sales, labels include Columbia, Epic, Sony, Arista, Jive and RCA Records

Beyonce, Shakira, Michael Jackson, Alicia Keys, Christina Aguilera

A limited number of actors in the cultural industry means a limited
amount of viewpoints and ideas making their way to the general public.
It also means that a single message can easily saturate all forms of
media to generate consent (i.e. “there are weapons of mass destruction
in Iraq”).

The Standardization of Human Thought

The merger of media companies in the last decades generated a small
oligarchy of media conglomerates. The TV shows we follow, the music we
listen to, the movies we watch and the newspapers we read are all
produced by FIVE corporations. The owners of those conglomerates have
close ties with the world’s elite and, in many ways, they ARE the elite.
By owning all of the possible outlets having the potential to reach the
masses, these conglomerates have the power to create in the minds of
the people a single and cohesive world view, engendering a
“standardization of human thought”.
Even movements or styles that are considered marginal are, in fact,
extensions of mainstream thinking. Mass medias produce their own rebels
who definitely look the part but are still part of the establishment and
do not question any of it. Artists, creations and ideas that do not fit
the mainstream way of thinking are mercilessly rejected and forgotten
by the conglomerates, which in turn makes them virtually disappear from
society itself. However, ideas that are deemed to be valid and desirable
to be accepted by society are skillfully marketed to the masses in
order to make them become self-evident norm.
In 1928, Edward Bernays already saw the immense potential of motion pictures to standardize thought:

“The American motion picture is the greatest unconscious carrier of
propaganda in the world today. It is a great distributor for ideas and
opinions. The motion picture can standardize the ideas and habits of a
nation. Because pictures are made to meet market demands, they reflect,
emphasize and even exaggerate broad popular tendencies, rather than
stimulate new ideas and opinions. The motion picture avails itself only
of ideas and facts which are in vogue. As the newspaper seeks to purvey
news, it seeks to purvey entertainment.”
– Edward Bernays, Propaganda

These facts were flagged as dangers to human freedom in the 1930′s by
thinkers of the school of Frankfurt such as Theodor Adorno and Herbert
Marcuse. They identified three main problems with the cultural industry.
The industry can:

reduce human beings to the state of mass by hindering the
development of emancipated individuals, who are capable of making
rational decisions;

replace the legitimate drive for autonomy and self-awareness by the safe laziness of conformism and passivity; and

validate the idea that men actually seek to escape the absurd and
cruel world in which they live by losing themselves in a hypnotic state
self-satisfaction.

The notion of escapism is even more relevant today with
advent of online video games, 3D movies and home theaters. The masses,
constantly seeking state-of-the-art entertainment, will resort to
high-budget products that can only be produced by the biggest media
corporations of the world. These products contain carefully calculated
messages and symbols which are nothing more and nothing less than
entertaining propaganda. The public have been trained to LOVE its
propaganda to the extent that it spends its hard-earned money to be
exposed to it. Propaganda (used in both political, cultural and
commercial sense) is no longer the coercive or authoritative
communication form found in dictatorships: it has become the synonym of
entertainment and pleasure.

“In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal
literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the
propaganda might be true, or it might be false. They did not foresee
what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist
democracies — the development of a vast mass communications industry,
concerned in the main neither with the true nor the false, but with the
unreal, the more or less totally irrelevant. In a word, they failed to
take into account man’s almost infinite appetite for distractions.”
– Aldous Huxley, Preface to A Brave New World

A single piece of media often does not have a lasting effect on the
human psyche. Mass media, however, by its omnipresent nature, creates a
living environment we evolve in on a daily basis. It defines the norm
and excludes the undesirable. The same way carriage horses wear blinders
so they can only see what is right in front of them, the masses can
only see where they are supposed to go.

“It is the emergence of mass media which makes possible the use of
propaganda techniques on a societal scale. The orchestration of press,
radio and television to create a continuous, lasting and total
environment renders the influence of propaganda virtually unnoticed
precisely because it creates a constant environment. Mass media provides
the essential link between the individual and the demands of the
technological society.”
– Jacques Ellul

One of the reasons mass media successfully influences society is due
to the extensive amount of research on cognitive sciences and human
nature that has been applied to it.

Manipulation Techniques

“Publicity is the deliberate attempt to manage the public’s
perception of a subject. The subjects of publicity include people (for
example, politicians and performing artists), goods and services,
organizations of all kinds, and works of art or entertainment.”

The drive to sell products and ideas to the masses has lead to an
unprecedented amount of research on human behavior and on the human
psyche. Cognitive sciences, psychology, sociology, semiotics,
linguistics and other related fields were and still are extensively
researched through well-funded studies.

“No group of sociologists can approximate the ad teams in the
gathering and processing of exploitable social data. The ad teams have
billions to spend annually on research and testing of reactions, and
their products are magnificent accumulations of material about the
shared experience and feelings of the entire community.”

- Marshal McLuhan, The Extensions of Man

The results of those studies are applied to advertisements, movies,
music videos and other media in order to make them as influential as
possible. The art of marketing is highly calculated and scientific
because it must reach both the individual and the collective
consciousness. In high-budget cultural products, a video is never “just a
video,” Images, symbols and meanings are strategically placed in order
to generate a desired effect.

“It is with knowledge of the human being, his tendencies, his
desires, his needs, his psychic mechanisms, his automatisms as well as
knowledge of social psychology and analytical psychology that propaganda
refines its techniques.”
– Propagandes, Jacques Ellul (free translation)

Today’s propaganda almost never uses rational or logical arguments.
It directly taps into a human’s most primal needs and instincts in
order to generate an emotional and irrational response. If we always
thought rationally, we probably wouldn’t buy 50% of what we own. Babies
and children are constantly found in advertisements targeting women for a
specific reason: studies have shown that images of children trigger in
women an instinctual need to nurture, to care and to protect, ultimately
leading to a sympathetic bias towards the advertisement.

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Strange old 7up ad using the cuteness of babies

Sex is ubiquitous in mass media, as it draws and keeps the viewer’s
attention. It directly connects to our animal need to breed and to
reproduce, and, when triggered, this instinct can instantly overshadow
any other rational thoughts in our brain.

Subliminal Perception

What if the messages described above were able to reach directly
the viewers’ subconscious mind, without the viewers even realizing what
is happening? That is the goal of subliminal perception. The phrase
subliminal advertising was coined in 1957 by the US market researcher
James Vicary, who said he could get moviegoers to “drink Coca-Cola” and
“eat popcorn” by flashing those messages onscreen for such a short time
that viewers were unaware.

“Subliminal perception is a deliberate process created by
communications technicians, by which you receive and respond to
information and instructions without being consciously aware of the
instructions”
– Steve Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States

This technique is often used in marketing and we all know that sex sells.

Although some sources claim that subliminal advertising is
ineffective or even an urban myth, the documented usage of this
technique in mass media proves that creators believe in its powers.
Recent studies have also proven its effectiveness, especially when the
message is negative.

” A team from University College London, funded by the Wellcome
Trust, found that it [subliminal perception] was particularly good at
instilling negative thoughts. There has been much speculation about
whether people can process emotional information unconsciously, for
example pictures, faces and words,” said Professor Nilli Lavie, who led
the research. We have shown that people can perceive the emotional value
of subliminal messages and have demonstrated conclusively that people
are much more attuned to negative words.”- Source

A famous example of subliminal messaging in political communications is in George Bush’s advertisement against Al Gore in 2000.

Right after the name of Gore is mentioned, the ending of the
word “bureaucrats” – “rats” – flashes on the screen for a split second.
The discovery of this trickery caused quite a stir and, even if there
are no laws against subliminal messaging in the U.S., the advertisement
was taken off the air.
As seen in many articles on The Vigilant Citizen, subliminal
and semi-subliminal messages are often used in movies and music videos
to communicate messages and ideas to the viewers.

Desensitization

In the past, when changes were imposed on populations, they would
take to the streets, protest and even riot. The main reason for this
clash was due to the fact that the change was clearly announced by the
rulers and understood by the population. It was sudden and its effects
could clearly be analyzed and evaluated. Today, when the elite needs a
part of its agenda to be accepted by the public, it is done through
desensitization. The agenda, which might go against the public best
interests, is slowly, gradually and repetitively introduced to the
world through movies (by involving it within the plot), music videos
(who make it cool and sexy) or the news (who present it as a solution to
today’s problems). After several years of exposing the masses to a
particular agenda, the elite openly presents the concept the world and,
due to mental programming, it is greeted with general indifference and
is passively accepted. This technique originates from psychotherapy.

“The techniques of psychotherapy, widely practiced and accepted
as a means of curing psychological disorders, are also methods of
controlling people. They can be used systematically to influence
attitudes and behavior. Systematic desensitization is a method used to
dissolve anxiety so the the patient (public) is no longer troubled by a
specific fear, a fear of violence for example. [...] People adapt to
frightening situations if they are exposed to them enough”.
– Steven Jacobson, Mind Control in the United States

Predictive programming is often found in the science fiction genre.
It presents a specific image of the future – the one that is desired by
the elite – and ultimately becomes in the minds of men an
inevitability. A decade ago, the public was being desensitized to war
against the Arab world. Today, the population is gradually being exposed
to the existence of mind control, of transhumanism and ﻿of an
Illuminati elite. Emerging from the shadows, those concepts are now
everywhere in popular culture. This is what Alice Bailey describes as
the “externalization of the hierarchy”: the hidden rulers slowly
revealing themselves.

Occult Symbolism in Pop Culture

Metropolis – a movie by the elite, for the elite?

Contrarily to the information presented above, documentation on
occult symbolism is rather hard to find. This should not come as a
surprise as the term “occult”, literally means “hidden”. It also means
“reserved to those in the know” as it is only communicated to those who
are deemed worthy of the knowledge. It is not taught in schools nor is
it discussed in the media. It is thus considered marginal or even
ridiculous by the general population.
Occult knowledge is NOT, however, considered ridiculous in occult
circles. It is considered timeless and sacred. There is a long tradition
of hermetic and occult knowledge being taught through secret societies
originating from ancient Egyptians, to Eastern Mystics, to the Knights
Templar to modern day Freemasons. Even if the nature and the depth of
this knowledge was most probably modified and altered throughout the
centuries, mystery schools kept their main features, which are highly symbolic, ritualistic and metaphysical. Those
characteristics, which were an intricate part of
ancient civilizations, have totally been evacuated from modern society
to be replaced by pragmatic materialism. For this reason, there lies an
important gap of understanding between the pragmatic average person and
the ritualistic establishment.

“If this inner doctrine were always concealed from
the masses, for whom a simpler code had been devised, is it not highly
probable that the exponents of every aspect of modern civilization –
philosophic, ethical, religious, and scientific-are ignorant of the true
meaning of the very theories and tenets on which their beliefs are
founded? Do the arts and sciences that the race has inherited from older
nations conceal beneath their fair exterior a mystery so great that
only the most illumined intellect can grasp its import? Such is
undoubtedly the case.”
- Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings of All Ages

The “simpler code” devised for the masses used to be organized
religions. It is now becoming the Temple of the Mass Media and it
preaches on a daily basis extreme materialism, spiritual vacuosity and a
self-centered, individualistic existence. This is exactly the opposite
of the attributes required to become a truly free individual, as taught
by all great philosophical schools of thought. Is a dumbed-down
population easier to deceive and to manipulate?

“These blind slaves are told they are “free” and
“highly educated” even as they march behind signs that would cause any
medieval peasant to run screaming away from them in panic-stricken
terror. The symbols that modern man embraces with the naive trust of an
infant would be tantamount to billboards reading, ‘This way to your
death and enslavement,’ to the understanding of the traditional peasant
of antiquity”
- Michael A. Hoffman II, Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare

In Conclusion

This article examined the major thinkers in the field of mass media,
the media power structure and the techniques used to manipulate the
masses. I believe this information is vital to the understanding of the
“why” in the topics discussed on The Vigilant Citizen. The
“mass population” versus “ruling class” dichotomy described in many
articles is not a “conspiracy theory” (again, I hate that term), but a
reality that has been clearly stated in the works of some of the 20th
century’s most influential men.
Lippmann, Bernays and Lasswell have all declared that the public are
not fit to decide their own fate, which is the inherent goal of
democracy. Instead, they called for a cryptocracy, a hidden government, a
ruling class in charge of the “bewildered herd.” As their ideas
continue to be applied to society, it is increasingly apparent that an
ignorant population is not an obstacle that the rulers must deal with:
It is something that is DESIRABLE and, indeed, necessary, to insure
total leadership. An ignorant population does not know its rights, does
not seek a greater understanding of issues and does not question
authorities. It simply follows trends. Popular culture caters to and
nurtures ignorance by continually serving up brain-numbing entertainment
and spotlighting degenerate celebrities to be idolized. Many people ask
me: “Is there a way to stop this?” Yes, there is. STOP BUYING THEIR
CRAP AND READ A BOOK.“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, it expects what never was and never will be.”
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